Just a moment ago me and my SO were talking about the company my dad works for and she said it's a shame they don't have work for me too (I'm unemployed) while knowing wery well I'm trying to gather up the courage to start my own bussines.

I told my first ever girlfriend (after several months of being together) that losing my virginity with someone I cared about was something important for me and she told me to "go find a whore". Now, I sure wasn't the most mature person in the world at the time, but that response hurt in a way I don't feel was warranted.

When an ex told me she didn't think I had ambition, because she was getting a degree and I chose not to go back to school.

Fast forward, I have a very successful and fulfilling career, and I believe she never used her degrees. Whoops.

I'm reasonably thick skinned, and often if I feel insulted I think about it awhile and decide I am wrongly interpreting whatever pissed me off. Only a couple of times I have kept getting madder and madder instead, so then I address the person who made the remark, and it's gone pretty well each time.

Once when a boss congratulated a new president of the "activities committee" by saying now we had a real president (after I had done it the year before, and gotten a lot done). This was years ago. Couple days later I confronted him and he said he'd been thinking about how rude that was, and was going to apologize.

I guess my point is - if you are easily insulted maybe it's you. If you are not easily insulted and get insulted you may have to communicate with the insulting party to be able to let it go.